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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11

STRIKES tear down; they do not build
up-anythipg. Hence, the popular oppo-
sion to them. 1t was the desperation
born OF a knowledge of the destructive
effects of strikes that caused a great
Chicago paper not long since to declare
that the United Ststes government and
the Knights Of Labor organization could
not both exist. Speaking of the burden
on New York because of the great strike
of the longshoremen, the New York Sun
says:
Leaving out of consideration the question
whether the strike is good or bad for the
Knights of Labor or for the coal companies or
steamship companies, is it good for the city of
New York: Everybody is intere ted in that
question.
a ship owner was asked few days ago II he
had "a en- able to get coal for Ills vessels next
wage. He replied that he Tad enough to
steam to Newport News WITH end hereafter"
said he II shall always coal at Newport News"
New York Will suffer TO the extent of that Gus
toner lost; and in the natural order of things
there must be many Others
This brings us to proposition from which
we can see no escape. This is, that while It is
conceivable that If central organization, such
IS the Knights of Labor, might gain the control
of all The laborers in a great city, 1t would
practically destroy the city. Trade shuns
worry and uncertainty, and if Nav York is to
become the center of conflict between employ
ers and employed, trade will go els where-to
other cities, where the walking delegate
ceases from troubling and the unions are at
rest.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11

WHEN Lanham's seed bill reached the
Senate "a debate followed as TO the ne
cessity for such contribution to so rich
a state as Texas. Mr.. Hawley said thet
for the credit of Texas he would vote
against the bill. For this great state, this
mighty empire to pass around the hat was
disgraceful. II my little state of Connec-
ticut came here begging $4,000 for gar
den seed and got it he would resign"
Senator HawIey would be sarcastic. If
the southern states had received one-tenth
the benefit conferred by national legisla-
ton on the eastern states, no one of them
would be in a condition to ask aid. They
would not only be as independent as Con-
necticut, but so independent that they
would scorn longer to be the benefciaries
of g tariff that robbed other sections for
their benefit.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11

The attempt on the part Of Senator
Hoar and the Republican Senators to run
the southern outrage mill in Texas shows
that the old spirit is not dead but only
sleeps. The three mighty men of Wash
ington courty will find Cain-like burden
laid upon their shoulders if they attempt
to bear aloft the banner of the bloody
shirt. No longer will its wanton color
lure men TO its standard. If the Repub-
lican party would again lead, its army
must not be made up of malignents, nor
its ensigns symbolic dead issues. No
spirit of life can be breathed into the
wretched ruin where once there was life,
for even in nostrils of its former friends
''it stinketh," and there Is no human
power that can restore to life after so
long burial.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11
MRY A DEMOCRAT.

An amusing account was given by Sem
ator Vance OF North Carolina at meet
ing of the Crescent Club in Baltimore, Of
his conversion TO Democracy. His def
milton Of an old Wing IS quite facetious.
81 was once Whig-one of those who
believe in backing his boots on Sun
day morning and blowing his nose like q
trumpet in q red bandana handkerchief. |
continued to be Wing until | could be
one no longer without breaking burglar
iously into lunatic asylum. Laughter. J
l saw the practical effect Of the old doc
trine of Daniel Webster, that the consti-
tuition was not compact between the
states, but an emauation from the peo-
pie at large. found that this doctrine,
while it would do well enough in peace,
would not do in war. l had believed in
the Websterian doctrine once, but |
changed my mind when l saw the major
ity of the states-larger in number and
more wealthy-coming down upon the
minority, burning their homes and
devastating their fields. l then
doubted the right of one portion of
the country to coerce another part.
II had any doubts then they were re-
moved when that reptilian age # Ameri-
can politics came, called the reconstruc-
ton period laughter, when those rep
tiles of various names whom We, laying
aside scientific terms, called carpet-bag
gers, poured in upon US, protected by the
bayonets of the federal government, to
AXE what little treasure mad been left US.
felt that if Hamilton could have done
so he would have turned over in his
grave aud said: JEFF, | beg your par
dom During all the period which fol-
lowed the reconstruction act there was
heard every now and then some small
voice which pleaded for constitutional
law, and that voice was always Demo
cratic voice. Finally Jere Black fired off
his tremendous gun. First township
was carried, then city, then a state and
finally the whole country became aroused
and secured to us restoration of our
ancient rights"
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11

IN ILLINOIS there Is "a earnest effort
being made to have the killing OF the be
tfzyer Il 6 woman classed as misde-
meanor. Whatever the result of this
endeevor may be, the TACT will remain
that the punisher Of so great an outrage
sgainst society will seldom need the kind
offices Of such a law. There are few
juries that can be found to convict, what
ever term the law may apply to the deed
which avenges such wrongs, and the IN
written law will hold. This law is known
to every man, and needs no learned dis
QUESTION on its technicalities, and that
man who defes it dares the penalty, and
all the world approves when vengeance is
melted out to him.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11

OFFICE OF STATE LAND BOARD, :
AUSTIN, TEX, Dec. 81, 1886.
Honorable Senate and House of Representa-
tives
GENTLEMEN-Herewlt transmit state
ments of the transactions of the State
Land Board since the organization of the
same, June Is, 1888, up to December 81,
1886, relating TO the Common School,
University aud Asylum lands, to-wit:
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES AND PASTURE
LANDS.
Common school, acres, 100000; Blind
Asylum, IS 900; Deaf and Dumb Asylum,
IS, 900; Orphan Asylum, 10000; Lunatic
Asylum, 81 900; University, q 900; total,
$685. 900.
OF these sales, about 100000 acres
were sold st January, 1884, session, under
composition, before sales were restricted
to settlers, and realized an average price
of S2.l3 per acre. The balance of this
quautity, l 9:8 200 acres, vas sold under
rules restricting sales TO settlers, without
competition, at 50 per acre.
aALEs-TIMBER LAND (TYLER COUNTY,
Oae thousand, two hundred and eighty
acres, at % per ocFe, cash down Gin
three scts).
sALES-TIMBER (TYLER COUNTY,.
One thousand, nine hundred and twenty
acres, ut So per acre, cash down (sold
und.r provisions of section 10, present
act, timber 10 be removed within four
years..
List Of Lands forfeited for failure to pay Interest
for 1885, in -icrcS and bV Counties.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11

VERIFY the study of philology is lnt:i-
cate with young woman as an originator
of words, for no one can be expected to
adduce reason for their being. Just as
the world began to understand mash and
masher, these words are superseded by
"jounce," the signifcstion of this new
word seeming to be that the victim Ct
feminine wiles Is shaken up, jolted, is in
that state Of feeling which comes OF
sudden stoppage in rapid descent.
" He's jounced," she says, AID leaves
the stunned and bruised specimen to
gather up himself as best he can, While
she goes calmly or c3nqusring men ard
coming words
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11

THERE is good prospec. that the Sun
day laws of Massachusetts will be over
haul by the Legislature very soon, in
accordance with The suggestions made by
Governor Ames. 1t is said that the bar
bers and druggists OF Boston have recent
ly been in consultation with active mem
bers, with view of mapping out plan
of operations. Some OF the legislators
believe that the laws forbidding the
opening of drug stores and barber shops
should be summarily repealed; others
want the drug stores to be kept open on
the ground OF public necessity, but will
not accord the same right to the barber
shops; and still others believe they
should all be shut. As an evil
dence of the distance at which the
old Bay State now stands from
witch burning, the following comments
of Massachusetts paper on the Sunday
law agitation are quoted: 1.-THE proper
observance of Sunday depends more upon
the hearts of the people than upon stat
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11

utes. If a man is disposed to observe
the day reasonably-with reverence, fear
and love of God-the opening of barber
shops and drug stores can do no harm,
and if he is not inclined that way their
closing will do little good. Sunday is a
glorious day, great blessing to man
kind, and one of manifest wisdom. 1t is
day of happy rest from the toll and tur-
moil of the worlds business, of quiet and
peaceful "return into ones self" of COM
munion with frieIds and kindred, of
mental and bodily relaxation, and the
sublime idea which it symbolizes cannot
be too often recalled to the memory"
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11

THE Fort Worth GAZETTE has new vignette
in It's head line. 1t is fifty years in advance of
the age i McGregor Pla!ndealer.
Esteemed contemporary, there are
trelce outlets shown on that Fort Worth
railroad msp; nine of these are now be-
ing operated; steel rails are being
laid, now, on the tenth; the per-
mapcm survey of the line of the
eiercnth is now being made; the
stockholders of the hregth, and
last, have voted an issuance OF bonds for
its construction. The map is really be
hind, not in advance of the ege. 1t
already needs revision. 1t lacks three
lines of being perfect and faithful to
the age
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11

FORT WORTH now has nine railroad
outlets in operation. Steel rails are be-
ing put down on the tenth, to the south
west. Over forty miles of the route of
the eleventh have been permanently To-
Gated to the northwest. The stockholders
have voted an issuance of bonds to build
the twelfth, also TO the northwest. And
now, it is said we are to have the thir-
teenth, from the northeast, before the
close of the year. And still we are not
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11

mony having taken .place; neither nor
my husband was there, and st the lime it
was said to have occurred my daughter
was ST home sewing"
Mr.. VaDZan6t said the whole story of
the alleged marriage was "pack of id
lies" and none of his family knew or had
heard anything about it. If it had taken
place, which ne did not for moment
credit, he and his wife were absent, and
of mis- own knowledge he knew his daugh-
ter was at home at the time when 1t was
represented TO have taken place.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11


BANQUo's ghost will not down, neither
will the resurrection business. The public
is now threatened with the second ad-
vent of Brigham Young. That the old
Turk should have chosen this particular
period for his temperance is rather out
of keeping with the worldly wisdom he
was wont to exhibit in his former life.
Has he been where Kate Field and Ed
munds are not known? or is he tired of
place where there is neither msrriage
nor giving in marrisgef Doubtless
Mohammedan Paradise was more to his
taste. Pretenders have never succeeded
in establishing their claims, and the de-
spairing Mormons will find even their LAST
ditch untenable.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11
RIDDLEBERGER'S VOTE.

The Virginia Senator Tells why He Voted
Against the Fishery Rotaliatory Bill.
NEW YORK, Feb. $.-Patrick Ford Of
the Irish World has received the follow
ing letter from Senator Riddleberger, ex-
planning why he voted against the fishery
retaliatory bill:
SENATE CHAMBER, WASHINGTON.
Feb. l, 1887.
Patrick Ford, Esq
DEAR SIR beg leave to say that
since my vote on the so-called
retaliatory bill 1 have been re-
quested from several sources to make
public my reasons for my single vote.
Briefly stated, l regard such retaliatory
legislation as child's play, especially
when Canadian fisherman are almost
within stones throw of the American
shores. What we want is coast defeGses,
cruisers and men-of-war to resent insults
as they are offered. Trifng with such
matters but humiliates and procrasti-
mates. If we would have the re-
spect of England We must COM
mand it, and there is but one way
to command it. Beginning with 1etalia-
ton, so-called, will ultimately end in
treaties which may swap American citi-
zers for Doodle aldermen. Guns are bet
ter guarantees against insults and in
juries than paper treaties. Such Is my
humble opinion. Very respectfully,
TSigned. H. H. RIDDLEBERGR.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11
A TIRESOME SUBJECT.
Miss yanZandt's Parents Deny the Al
legged Marriage by Proxy.

CHICAGO, ILL. Feb. 2.-There Is
growing impression here that the entire
VanZandt family-father, mother and
daughter-is suffering from some sort of
mental disease which renders it incapable
of discriminating between truth and IN
truth. There is not the slightest doubt
that the girl went through a marriage
ceremony with 8 brother of August Spies,
but both Father and Mother VanZandt
made equivocal denials of that fact to-day.
"That is the most ridiculous of all the
silly stories that have been started" said
the latter. awe know nothing about it;
don't believe it was ever contemplated,
and we could never have entertained such
proceeding for the moment. Mr.. Spies
mother knows nothing about such cere-
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11
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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11
COnsumption Cured

An old physician, iSretlred from practice
having had placed inshis hands by an East India
missionary the for 5ulaIof simple vegetable
remedy for the speedyand permanent cure of
bronchitis, catarrh, asthma and
all THROAT andsJiIfsg affections, alsoa positive
and radical cure for. nerTeus debility and all
nervous soInplaints.a after having tested its Won
7derful curative Bowers, M thoasands of cases,
mas felttt his duty to make It known to his suf
fering fellows 4'Actuated b, tgis motive and a
desire to relieve human suffering, will send
free of charge, to all who desire C, this recipe,
in German, French or English, with full dfrec-
lions for preparing and using. SeRtbyInai by
addressing with stamp, naming this paper,
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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11

THE county of Brewster has already
been created by the Twentieth Legisla-
ture. And now the Lower House has
passed the bills creating ten other new
counties, viz: Ector, Winkler, Loving, Up
ton. Crane and Ward out of Tom Green
county; and Albion, Hsyne, JEFF Davis
and Prentiss out of FL Paso and Preside
counties. Some idea of the vastness Of
Texas may be cleaned from the fact that
the territory embraced in those new
counties, which were created out of only
three counties already existing, is as
large as some of the states of the Union
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11

MR.. JAY GOULD does not seem to be
alone in his intention to build railroads
in Texas this year and next year. Mr..
Huntington, the Atchison people, the
Frisco people and the st. Louis, Arkar-
sss and Texas people are also in the
Texas field "to stay" The "chsrming
conyessationslists" are multiplying in
this land of broad and fertile prairies,
coal, iron and pine lumber. The railroad
map of Texas as it now exists will not
recognize itself by the end of 1888.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11
On The Clothing of the People.

There is nothing in the present tariff
system so Ubiquitous as the schedule coy-
ering woolens. The existing rates of
duty on wool and wooden goods range
from 80 to nearly 100 per cent. No other
tariff IN the world, including that OF Tur-
key, is so remorSeless in its cruelty as is
the tariff of this country in its taxes on
clothing.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11

RoBBING Peter to pay Paul is illus
trated by the action of the Knights of
Labor in New York, Brooklyn and Jersey
City, in their decision to pay no more
rent, but devote the money to aiding the
strikers. 1t is not said, however, that
they intend to move out of rented houses.
There is in this a certain appearance of
being generous at the expense of Justice.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11

IT was in Cincinnati, Ohio, city north
of Mason and Dixor's line, that an at
tempt was made to assassinate Judge
for doing his duty. The desperation and
cowardice of crime in the north is fright
full to contemplate.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11

II .wasfin Ohio, state north of Mason
IND Dixon's line, that men boarded
passenger train, shot two law officers
down and rescued g robber. 1t would
appear that the criminal instinct is not
confined 10 the section south of the OHIO
river
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11

THE San Antonio Express says Reagan's
election will be a disappointment to two
thirds of the people of the state. The
mistake of the Express is in supposins
that "tyo- thirds of the state" are the
Southwest Texas wool growers.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11

ARTEsIAN wells multiply in Texas.
Burieson, in Tarran. county, is the last
town to rejoice in b untitul supply OF
pure water drawn from the bosom OF
mother earth.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11

THE New York World says Cleveland
cannot carry New York. The delegates
at Chicago were told the same thing by
Tammanyites. And yet Cleveland car
ried New York
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11

happy. We still lack the st. Louis and
San Francisco and the Chicago, Rock Is
land and Pacific. Fort Worth is a rail-
road center, and this explains why manu-
featuring enterprises are heading this
yyaV
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11
EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS.
Western Indiana and Central and Eastern
Illinois Shaken.

Illinois Shaken.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Feb. G.-y5legrams
to the journal report that at about AIS
this morning two shocks of earthquake
were felt in Western Indiana and Central
and Eastern Illinois. The shocks were
felt at Terre Haute and Sullivan, Ind =,
aud at Msrtinsville, Paris and Champaign,
Ii. The seismoscOpe ct Terre HGute re-
corded the time as 10. Professor Men
denhail of Terre Haute, places the inten-
Sity Of the shock at . to 8, On basis
which fixes the Charleston shocks at 6.
The shock was not noticeable in this
city.
IN MISSOURI.
ST. LOUIS, Mo, FEB. A slight shock
of earthquake was felt in this city be-
tween I O'Clock aud 4:l0 O'Clock this
morning. The movement was barely
noticeable in the central portion of tue
city, but in the outskirts and suburbs
several persons were awakened by the
shock. In the southern part of the
city pictures were moved
from the walls, but 10
damage of any kind has as vet been re-
ported. Reports from Southeastern
Illinois and Southern Missouri state that
the shock was also felt in those localities,
but it seems to have been no more severe
than here.
IN KENTUCKY.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. Ga slight
shock OF earthquake was felt at o'clock
this morning in this city, end in New
Albany and JeffersOnvllle, Ind.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11

FORT WORTH as horse market is be-
ginning to impress buyers. Letters of
inquiry from different sections Indicate
the need thst existed for such market in
North Texas
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11

SEVENTEEN suicides of bucket-shop
losers in one city of Texas ought TO be
potent argument for their expulsion from
the state.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11

The Twentieth Legislature might be
called an anti-monopolY body without
doing great violence to the English
language.